WHERE IN THE WORLD?

ABSOLUTE LOCATION

ABSOLUTE LOCATION is describing the location of a place using latitude and longitude

RELATIVE LOCATION

Relative Location is describing a location by comparing it to some other location (example: The United States is south of Canada)

COUNTRY

Countries are when states come together.

CONTINENTS

Continents are when countries come together they form this.

BOUNDARY

Boundaries are also called a border. A line that divides cities from other cities, states from other states, or countries from other countries.

HISTORICAL MAP

Historical Map is a map that shows how a place used to look during a certain time in history.

POLITICAL MAP

Political Map is a map that shows cities, states, and countries, and usually large bodies of water.

MOUNTAINS

Appalachian Rocky Andes Himalaya Alps

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

The Appalachians are the oldest chain of mountains in the North American continent

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

The Rocky Mountain Range actually represents a series of more than 100 separate mountain ranges, rather than one uninterrupted mountain chain

ANDES MOUNTAINS

The mountain range extends over seven countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS

MT. EVEREST

Of the fifteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine of them are contained within the Nepal Himalayas

ALPS MOUNTAINS

ALPS

The Alps comprise about 180 mountains,

RIVERS

Nile Amazon

Yangtze Mississippi Ganges

NILE RIVER

The Nile River is actually 4184 miles long

AMAZON RIVER

The Amazon at any one point in time has the highest amount of water flowing down it. No other river even comes close. It may not be the longest, but it is the widest.

YANGTZE RIVER

The Yangtze flows through nine provinces of China and drains an area equal to 695,000 square miles of land.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER

The name "Mississippi" comes from the Anishinabe people (Ojibwe Indians). They called the river "Messipi" or "Mee-zee-see-bee," which means "Big River" or "Father of Waters."

GANGES RIVER

The plains on the banks of this river are very fertile and is one of the most densely

populated areas in the world with half of India's population living and depending on the

banks of Ganges.